Manufacturing carpets and rugs



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOI-IN G. MCNAIR, OFWEST FARMS, NEW YORK.

MANUFACTURING CARPETS AND RUGS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,834, dated October 24.1, 1854.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN G. MCNAIB, of West Farms, Testchester county, New York, have invented a new and useful Manufacture which I denominate Chenille Tapestry for Carpets, Rugs, and other Purposes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to t-he accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a plan of the new fabric; Fig. 2, a separate view of chenille weft to be used in weaving the fabric; and Fig. 3, represents the said chenille with its figuring yarns bent up as prepared for use.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

The article known4 in the arts as chenille is woven with thread or cotton warp mounted in the loom in sections with sufficient space between any two sections to leave the required projection of weft yarns to form the required tuft on each side. In the process of weaving, the weft of woolen or other yarn is interwoven with the several sections of warp threads, so that when completed the fabric is cut longitudinally midway between the sections of warp threads, and leaving the unwoven ends of the weft yarns projecting on each side. The yarn for the weft is woven in with various colors in sections in such manner that when these strips are woven as weft into a fabric such as a rug, the two sets of ends of the several strips are bent up and constitute the pile of the fabric, and the arrangement of the colors in sections determines the ground and figure of the design.

In the new fabric which I have invented, I use chenille weft, with the sections of such weft, which, on the old plan, would represent the ground of the design, omitted, or not woven into the chenille. And my said invention consists in producing a fabric or manufacture with the ligure of the design formed of chenille weft, woven with the colors in sections, so as to produce the design required when woven in, when this is combined with a Brussels or other fabric with which it is interwoven, and which constitutes the ground, by means of which I am enabled to produce a fabric with a tuft and velvet like ligure, combined with a ground of Brussels, ingrain, or simple web.

In preparing or weaving the chenille for my improved fabric, the weft yarn a, is colored, and woven in the usual way, but where the ground color should be inserted, I omit it 'as at Z9, Fig. 2, leaving the warp thread c to form the connection. The two ends of the yarn in the chenille are bent up as represented in Fig. 3, in manner well known to weavers. The chenille thus prepared, I employ as a figuring weft in the production of the said new fabric. And when I wish to produce the said fabric with a Brussels ground, I weave such ground fabric in the usual mode of weaving Brussels or uncut velvet, having the warp controlled by a Jacquard or other figuring apparatus, as in the usual mode of producing figures in Brussels. Vhen the design, at any time, requires a portion of the figure to be produced, the chenille is introduced as a separate and distinct weft or shot and locked or tied by the binding in warps, all the other` warps, for that purpose, having been previously let down by the Jacquard or other suitable means.

In Fig. l, d, represents the Brussels ground and e, the chenille figure which may be of any design.

From the foregoing it will be seen that this mode of figuring may be combined with an ingrain, or any other web, as a ground, although I prefer Brussels. And it will also be obvious that the chenille figure of the design may be on the same level with the ground pile, or project above it to any desired extent, which will depend upon the length of the weft yarn of the chenille.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- A new fabric, which I denominate tapestry chenille, consisting of tapestry chenille weft woven with the colors to produce the design in sections, but without the ground color of the intended design, which prepared chenille weft is afterwards woven into, and combined with a Brussels, ingrain, or other web, which is to constitute the ground of the design, substantially as specified.

JOI-IN G. MoNAIR.

Witnesses:

ALEX. SMITH, SAMUEL M. PUBDY. 

